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The smash comes just months after Halloween-masked raiders stormed the salon and emptied the tils.

The thugs screamed at staff and also riffled through their purses.

At the time local Fianna Fail TD Frank O'Rourke expressed his sympathy for the workers and reiterated the need for more gardai in Kildare as it falls below the national average.

He said: "It's terrible for the staff to witness an experience like that. I feel nothing but sorrow for them.

"We need to ensure we put support in place to help people in that situation, and make sure places like Celbridge aren't targeted by criminals because they know when they come to an area like this they're not going to get away with it."

North Kildare TD Frank O'Rourke

"I've persistently and consistently raised the issue of the need for garda numbers and more specifically in the areas of Celbridge and Maynooth because those are large towns.

"Celbridge has a population of over 22,000, Maynooth has a population of 13,000 and obviously the university on top of that and we don't have full-time garda stations open 24/7.

"To be fair to garda management for them to be able to provide the right service they need the numbers.

"If you look at Kildare overall nationally, it has one garda per 680 people. The average nationally is one for every 400, so we're well behind the curb.